Re: [ossig] University curriculum for OSS?

[Uwe Dippel <udippel@uniten.edu.my>]

So happy you brought this up ... !

There is an overwhelming urge in my fingers to add a few remarks, but
this time around I restrict myself to asking, if it might not even make
sense to find out how many of us 'in here' are actually teaching on a
tertiary level. I'd be curious ... !
And - if there are sufficient numbers - to have another list to exchange
steps, ideas, material, rants (about the Micro$ofties, the
uncompromising admins, etc) and the students' feedback on our OpenSource
content.

As I understand, there will be two papers on OpenSource in tertiary
education at the forthcoming FOSSCON2003.

Uwe

On Fri, 2003-07-25 at 12:58, Loke KS wrote:
> Everybody has their pet peeves about universities and education in general
> ... the topic that i wanted to discuss is more narrow ... ie is there
> possible to be a subject to be taught under the OSS banner????
> 
> ie, say, the OSS development model is different enough from the usual RUP
> (rational unified process), or what other software engineering model ..
> 
> or, the value of free software and ethics ..
> 
> or, the use of program code as literature ..
> 
> > Unless very wonderful, caring,  inspiring, brilliant profs and mentors
> > are available  at a low student/prof ration  (5:1), the  following are
> > necessary:
> >
> > How to Think
> > How to Communicate
> > How to Plan and Complete Projects
> > How to Define and Solve Any Problem in Any Programming Language
> >
> > This is important, hard stuff that I wish somebody'd taught me at Uni,
> > but I  went to  a  Faceless Automatic Degree   Factory.   And I was  a
> > slacker ;)
> >
> > You  need to have   the thirst for discovery, but   you also need  the
> > tools.
> >
> > I  guess this  should  be  taught for  EVERY  degree...  alas  for our
> > imperfect world...
> >
> > --
> > % You are in a maze of twisty passages, all alike.
> >   Christopher DeMarco
> >   cdemarco@fastmail.fm
> >   +6013 389 5658
> >
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